Cecil seems uninterested in my questions, so perhaps some of you out there can help.
Question 1) Why do some mammals lap water (ie. dogs) while others sip (ie. horses). The closest I can guess is that meat eaters lap while herbivores sip…maybe because of the difference in teeth??
Question 2) What’s the 411 on that “spot free rinse” cycle at the car wash? Is it just low pressure water or is something added? Why does low pressure water get rid of spots better than high pressure?
Question 3) When a movie makes it to TV, we all know they “clean up” the dialouge. My question is when do they do it? At the same time the film is shot? Or do they wait to see if it makes it to TV and then call the actors back in?
Question 4) Whats up with all the odd gun calibers, like .357? Why not just .350 or .360? The others that puzzle me are the hyphenated ones like .30-.30 and .30-.06…what’s the hyphen about?
Question 5) Why do my dogs (one male one female) after “marking” their territory doe that little back scratching thing on the ground?
OK thats enough for now. To any legit answers to these ponderables a gracious thank you.
#0. The board encourages descriptive titles on the threads. Next time you might want to post 5 separate posts with appropriate titles when the questions are unrelated. #1. Good one, can’t help you there but I think you’re onto something.
#2. Haven’t seen that at my car wash, so dunno.
#3. The director doesn’t care about providing an alternate version for TV. The TV studios do it. Often offensive language is just deleted for TV but sometimes it is overdubbed. Not with the original actors though (“Mr. Eastwood, we’d like you to come to the recording studio today, it shouldn’t take long, we just need you to say, ‘shoot’ and ‘fudge’”). I think they get voice impersonator actors, but I’m not sure. It doesn’t have to be perfect when it’s one word here and another there.
#4. See this thread which you must have run right past when posting your own.
Movie dialogue. At the time they are shooting each scene, if they anticpate any possible need for more than one version, such as one version with strong language and another with milder language, they shoot both versions there and then.
There is an alternative. If there is only one version of a movie, but the censors in a given TV terrirtory wish to replace some of the strong language with milder expressions, the TV people get suitable actors in (e.g. a middle-aged man for a middle-aged man in the original) and get them to record the ‘cleaned up’ version of the dialogue, trying their best to match the voice of the original actor. They then dub in the new voice over the ‘naughty’ words.
This re-recording and dubbing of some dialogue is routine in places like Singapore, for example, where television is heavily censored and no swearing, sex or nudity is allowed to be broadcast. It used to be done here in the UK as well by both the BBC and the commercial channels, but now they don’t bother. So long as the movie is shown after 9.30pm, it can contain any kind of swearing and indeed anything except the hardest of hard core porn and it gets shown uncensored. Nobody cares.
Spot-free rinse: I believe the water comes from a different tank, which they’ve purified with reverse osmosis. When you rinse your car with it, it washes off all the crud but doesn’t leave spots, which are normally caused by impurities in the water. It’s lower pressure (WAG) because reverse osmosis costs them money for energy, so they’re trying to economize on water; it also doesn’t have to be high pressure because it’s just a rinse, not a wash.
My guess about #1 would be that it is more about the mobility of external mouth parts. Cows and horses and such can manipulate their lips to a much greater degree than canines and felines.
Building on this and the OP’s own guess, I think it may be that the herbivorous/carnivorous diet roughly paralells lip dexterity vs tongue skills. Herbivores often use their lips to break off greens to eat (although I can think of a few, such at the giraffe, that use their tongue). A slightly modified version of a grabbing motion with the lips can be used to siphon water. Carnivores (such as cats) may have tongues that are rough and/or adapted to licking meat off of bones, which would require some nimbleness to maximize the benefit, which in turn would lend itself to rapid water-lapping.
Lots of famous actors and actresses have commented about coming back for dubbing work. It would almost always be done after the final edit, but I suspect some directors shoot two versions of many scenes, just to give them options later. A Start Trek movie may be scheduled to have exactly 4 scenes with dangerous dialog, but nobody knows which ones will make the final cut, so a few are shot both ways, thus sparing last minute arguments with the ratings board.
There have been cases of re-doing whole scenes to make them “safe” for TV. I can’t remember any specific details, but is usualy something where there is a nude scene that they due a version scantily clad but TV safe as well.
Question 1: Carnivores have a split top lip. They can’t form a tube with their lip to suck water through so they have to lap. Cows, horsies, bears, people–all have a solid top lip. So we can suck, suck, suck all day long.
Question 2: 411 refers to .411% of full water pressure capability for the pump. Yes, it is low pressure water. High pressure water tends to break apart and roll off a surface. When sprayed at low pressure the water can “sheet” and flow off more or less as a unit thereby reducing the number of stray droplets which will form spots.
Question 3: Typically they will sample the replacement word from elsewhere in the film and record it over the offensive material.
Question 4: odd gun calibres? .38, .30-.30, .50 – those are all even calibres. What’s your point?
Question 5: Do you mean that bit where they roll over onto their back and frisk? They are not really scratching their backs. They are acquiring some of the urine into their coats so that they can be unmistakenly associated with the marking they have just left. Dogs are filthy animals.
Much of the movie info here is outdated. Used to be they’d replace the words at a later time. Nowadays, TV versions add so much income to a movie that they will frequently shoot entirely different scenes. One scene for the theatrical release, another scene with the “naught words” removed for the TV release. It’s become more and more standard to do it this way over the years.
In addition, when an editor finishes editing a film for theatrical release, they now stay on to do the TV and DVD versions immediately. Makes more sense than doing it later. The editor already knows the material, the editing systems are still set up, all the footage is loaded into the computers (editing is all done on comps nowadays, except for the rare director like Spielberg who cuts on film to avoid piracy issues before a movie is released), so they stick around an extra week or two to put the final versions together. Other editors may have already cut the “making of” featurettes, but this way the deleted scenes are ready for quick output from the editing system, and they have access to clean takes for TV release.
No cites for you, this is all from experience (my wife and I both edit).
I have heard (yes, that commonly quoted authority) that the doggie behaviour of flicking stuff backward after fertilising our gardens for us, is a remnant of the covering behaviour still exhibited by cats and other animals. If you watch the actual behaviour, it certainly looks like that.
Basically, they are covering the leftovers. As we humans have domesticated and inbred dogs hugely, they no longer do this properly.
As for Inigo Montoya’s comments about filthy dogs - this is an outraged, totally irrational dog owner here. We are a common breed. One of my dogs does the useless ground scratching all the time, the other rarely. I have owned dogs for decades and never seen one roll in its own excrement or urine. I will not mention the fact they occasionally roll in other foul stuff because that would ruin my argument. They are totally adorable!